DCHP-3

bloody hatchet

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a bloodied hatchet symbolizing war among certain North American Indians.

Quotations

1840
A huge fire was kindled, whereon is placed the great war-cauldron, into which everyone present throws something; and if any allies, invited by a belt of wampum and bloody hatchet to devour the flesh and drink the blood of the enemy, have accepted the summons, they send some ingredient to be also cast in.